Speaker 1: Electrical vehicles are totally different in plenty of methods, you recognize that, however they’re additionally totally different once they crash. Is {that a} good factor or a foul factor? We have all seen and possibly spent method an excessive amount of time watching these fascinating crash check movies. Sometimes from the Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security, it is how they work out who [00:00:30] will get a high security choose. However to check electrical vehicles, they needed to make a change. They needed to principally check their rig and see if it will possibly lug as much as 9,500 kilos of car down the runway into that cement block. It is because electrical vehicles can weigh a ton. You realize, a Hummer EV weighs over 9,000 [00:01:00] kilos. They’d by no means examined something like that earlier than. Even in Mercedes EQ. S about 6,000 kilos. The brand new Volvo, uh, ex 90 electrical suv, about 6,200, even a Tesla mannequin S merely a sedan, not a utility, clocks in it like 4,800 kilos. All of those are far above the 4,100 kilos or so. That’s the common weight of a non-electric automobile bought in 2022. And even that 4,100 is being [00:01:30] skewed excessive by the large quantity of vans and SUVs We purchase take out a few of these by going again a number of years and I wager it might be beneath 4 grand. So EVs weigh rather a lot.
Speaker 1: That is why they loaded up some outdated junkers currently with a complete bunch of metal and concrete to get them as much as a weight like an EV to ensure that their rig might haul one thing that heavy down the highway at full velocity into that cement block [00:02:00] once they get there. It is the identical crashes although, frontal collision, numerous overlap collisions, roof integrity assessments, and all of these then evaluated on how effectively the automobile’s passenger compartment held up defending you. Oh, by the best way, do you know the I I H S solely does crash assessments as much as 40 miles an hour? So that tremendous harm you see, that is simply as much as 40. That ought to offer you a way of mortality when [00:02:30] you concentrate on what can occur at larger freeway speeds. Let’s take it straightforward on the market. It may possibly get ugly. The excellent news is EVs seem to make a crash situation safer relying on which facet of stated situation you occur to seek out your self. In the event you’re within the heavier automobile, probably the ev, you are inclined to get tossed round much less by the opposite automobile, or your EV will get accelerated much less by the opposite lighter automobile. Both method, your [00:03:00] physique receives extra muted, bouncing round inside your cabin. Quickly although, we’re gonna have EVs hitting EVs and it will be attention-grabbing to see how issues stage out.
Speaker 1: Particularly I I H S says, harm claims from drivers and passengers who’ve crashes in EVs are inclined to run 40% under what’s seen from the occupants of typical vehicles in crashes from 2011 to 2019.
Speaker 1: Now, apart from all of the occupant [00:03:30] safety, the crumple zones, who will get bounced the place contained in the cabin throughout a crash, what in regards to the battery hearth that may happen after stated crash? I A H S has advised shopper stories they’ve but to have a battery hearth or a battery thermal runaway occasion in any of the EVs they’ve crash examined. That is fairly attention-grabbing. Now, they have not crashed, examined that many electrical vehicles, definitely nowhere close to as many as has truly crashed in the true world. And we have all seen the headlines about electrical vehicles catching hearth, not [00:04:00] simply in crashes typically due to unhealthy designs, however as we noticed in a latest story I did, it is presumably overblown vehicles of every kind catch hearth in crashes, whether or not they’re battery or gasoline powered. Particularly, I A H S crunched the numbers on deadly auto crashes that concerned hearth between combustion vehicles and electrical from 2009 to 2014 and located the speed between the 2 sorts of vehicles was about the identical. [00:04:30] Oh, by the best way, when you surprise what separates a high security choose from a high security choose, plus plenty of it comes down the know-how high security choose requires or a inexperienced ranking on all of the crash assessments, a sophisticated or superior ranking on entrance crash prevention tech, and a suitable or good ranking for the headlights on the automobile.
Speaker 1: The I A H S has been very huge on demanding higher headlight tech currently. High security choose plus [00:05:00] requires ranking on each collision check, no acceptable rankings, or acceptable headlight ranking on all trim ranges, not simply when an possibility is current and a sophisticated or superior ranking in crash prevention, each between automobiles and car to pedestrian.
Speaker 1: So the underside line is when you’re fascinated about an electrical automobile and questioning if it is protected, the reply is mostly sure until you are on the receiving finish of 1 hitting you. In the event you’re within the electrical automobile, you’ve got received better weight [00:05:30] in your facet, you’ve got received a decrease heavy middle of gravity that is in all probability gonna resist rollover. That is in your profit as effectively. You are additionally a automobile that is in all probability one of many automaker’s newest fashions and really probably has extra or higher crash prevention know-how in-built. And we’re discovering that the speed of fires definitely, a minimum of concerned in deadly accidents, is about the identical between an electrical automobile and one which runs on fuel or diesel.
